Probably you’ve seen already the 2009 AT&T “hands” campaign. For those who didn’t now you can enjoy the creative paintings. In all of them human hands are shaped and painted into the colors of different countries. The Advertising agency isBBDO,Guido Daniele is the artist behind these images.

Stan Brakhage’s work was crafted over six years. Very much seen as a cinematic abstract expressionism. This work is a palimpsest composed of fragments of footage, layered with drips and washes of colour, scratches and graphic patterns. Endlessly shifting in different pace. This movie was starting point in our “Scrach movie” exercise for the Film and Video course.

“The Dante Quartet is in fact the end result of Brakhage’s almost lifelong fascination with The Divine Comedy. It is a brief but spectacular filmic attempt to find a visual equivalent or rhyme for the four stages of the ascent from hell depicted by Dante: divided into ‘Hell Itself,’ ‘Hell Spit Flexion,’ ‘Purgation,’ and ‘Existence is Song.’ For Brakhage, this visualization is achieved by “bringing down to earth Dante’s vision, inspired by what’s on either side of one’s nose and right before the eyes: a movie that reflects the nervous system’s basic sense of being.” Thus, his vision of Dante is experiential, grounded in the transformative realities of earthly existence; for Brakhage “heaven” or “god” is to be found in the physical reality or materiality of the world.”

i am proud to be part of this world, what about you ?

As every artist was first an amateur I want to start my first blog ever by sharing with you a video that I was inspired of, actually I want to give you a small gift of watching this brilliant presentation from both a content and a delivery perspective. Highly entertaining and provoking at the same time this presentation is an amazing example of what TED is all about and I want to share it with you!

LCC Photography Research Show This research hub based at London College of Communication (LCC) brings together practitioners and theorists to explore and promote photography as a mode of imaginary thought and its relation to a collective imaginary. Specifically, we are interested in the increasingly complex research methodologies that underpin fine art photo […]

Graphic Design as Political Practice: A Conversation With Metahaven [Part 1] Published on February 14th, 2013 From: http://hyperallergic.com/ Written by: Kyle Chayka Installation view of “Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud” at MoMA PS1 (Photo: Matthew Septimus) Metahaven is an Amsterdam-based design studio made up of its two members and founders, Vinca Kruk and […]

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 850 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see […]

Journal of Writing in Creative Practice From Wish You Were Here? to GAMSWEN and onto Designed Dissertations: Connecting the design studio with writing in design Author: Mark Ingham /// /// This review describes the evolution of three art and design ‘writing’ projects delivered during the contextual studies courses of the undergraduate Graphic and Digital D […]

By Anamaria Dutceac Segesten October 14, 2010 11:00 pm EDT I return to one of my favorite subjects, blogging in the academia, but this time with a focus not on the students, as in my previous post, but on the scholar herself. I believe that blogging may be a useful tool for those of us […]

On Tuesday May 10 you will have to hand in your Magazine/Book/Newspaper/Website [or a receipt showing that you are having it printed] to Lauren at reception. You also have to publish a PDF or widget from Blurb of your completed work on your Blog/website at the same time. You will need to hand in this […]

Tomorrow [Wednesday 27 April] is your second to last day in LAB B for producing your GAMSWEN project articles. You should have written most of them by now with an introduction and a conclusion. They need to have references in the text as to where and who you got the information from (Powers 2011) AND […]

A case of never letting the source spoil a good story By Ben Goldacre Perhaps it’s too embarrassing for some writers to risk linking to primary sources that readers can check for themselves * Wind farms have been blamed for the stranding of whales, according to a distorted story in the Daily Telegraph which was […]

Have a look at and read the article in full Designing Britain 1945 – 1975 > From Solving Problems to Selling Product > Theory > Postmodernism http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/learning/designingbritain/html/crd_postmodern.html And then comment on what you think about this article in relation to your own design practice using the link to the Quick Topic discuss […]

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2011/03/15/next-up-what-you-see-is-what-you-get/ Next up, what you see is what you get. Posted on March 15, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein This post continues the discussion about the tool we developed for Split Second. Once you get past stressing and (possibly) scrolling in the timed trial, the tool asks you t […]

A very interseting post on a blog by Steven Bradley on Monday, March 7th, 2011 at: http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/visual-perception-memory/ Here are some excerpts: When a visitor lands on your web page and begins to look around you hope your message is communicated clearly and understood. On the surface this may seem like a simple one way transmissio […]

* It was created by the street artist Blu, who describes it as the result of “months of work and hundreds [of] buckets of paint”. That’s hardly surprising, given that it tries to illustrate the history of the universe since the big bang, with a particular focus on the evolution of life on Earth.Filed under: […]